When the right approach is applied, analytics can drive more effective marketing strategies. While marketers understand the role analytics plays within the organization, most are not leveraging analytics to really drive enterprise performance. We surveyed 100+ business leaders to understand the state of analytics maturity across today’s leading organizations, uncovering common challenges teams are facing in their quest to use data and analytics to deliver a competitive advantage.
What We Uncovered:
- 73% of analytic professionals claim to work for an analytically-driven company
- Only 42% of companies have a strategy for using analytics across the enterprise
- Just 38% of companies share results of their analytic insights outside their department
- 81% of organizations rely on 3rd parties for at least some portion of their analysis
Download the report to learn how marketers, like yourself, view themselves in light of using analytics to drive their business.

Learn the Pros & Cons of Leaders in the Engagement Space to ID the Best Solution for Enterprise Marketers
The first-of-its-kind Forrester Wave™ on Mobile Engagement Automation helps digital business and marketing professionals make the right choice to power that next level of hyperpersonalized customer engagement — whether on mobile, or not.
Get your complimentary report to learn:
? Which vendors Forrester analyzed based on a 30-criteria evaluation
? How these vendors differ on current offering, strategic vision and market presence
? Why more companies are investing in mobile engagement automation
? The considerations needed to make the right choice for enterprise marketers

The Enterprise Priorities in Digital Marketing report, produced by Econsultancy in partnership with Teradata, provides guidance for the future through specific benchmarks from digital marketing leaders at enterprise organizations.
The report focuses on the technology priorities of the world's largest companies, the strategies they support and the marketing budgets with which they're aligned.
The report is based on an international survey of 402 senior marketers (director and above) from global enterprises. Respondents were from companies with more than $500 million in revenue, with 56% having revenues over $3 billion.

A leader in WCM since circa 2006, SDL arguably produces the most functionally robust enterprise platform in the industry, with particular strengths in multi-channel marketing, globalization, translation management, and brand management. Based on a heterogeneous technical infrastructure, the product can be tricky to implement, but global, enterprise-wide deployments often require the fine-grained configurability of a such a solution. Non-technical business users (online marketers in particular) seem to adopt the product readily, and they consistently give its polished user interface high marks.

In today’s marketing world, it’s crucial that enterprise marketers not only know how programs are performing, but also possess the data to prove that performance. To demonstrate the effectiveness of their campaigns, marketers need to set the right goals to measure. Read this playbook to learn how to measure and prove marketing ROI to get the proper credit for generating sales meetings and opportunities.

Enterprise marketers have larger sends and bigger budgets, which increases their need to A/B test new techniques, layouts, and messaging for lead generation campaigns. Optimizing and improving conversion rates can make a big difference in marketing ROI, and lead to proven tactics and techniques organizations can adopt over time.

Enterprise marketers have larger sends and bigger budgets, which increases their need to A/B test new techniques, layouts, and messaging for lead generation campaigns. Optimizing and improving conversion rates can make a big difference in marketing ROI, and lead to proven tactics and techniques organizations can adopt over time.

Curious about how B2B enterprise content marketing has changed in the last year, or how enterprise marketers differ from their peers overall? This report from Content Marketing Institute, MarketingProfs, and Marketo covers tactics, strategies, challenges, budgets, and tools of enterprise B2B marketers in North America.

Today, CEOs expect their CMOs to be leaders in digital business innovation and growth. But even though marketing automation is at the center of the marketer’s ability to lead digital growth, enterprise marketers are some of its slowest adopters.

Your CEO might not care how many emails you sent last week, but they do care about revenue. To earn a seat at the table with your C-suite, enterprise marketers must continually prove that marketing isn't a cost center — it's a revenue driver.

Enterprise marketing software is widely recognized as a key enabler for improving effectiveness and efficiency of marketing teams. However, for marketers who are already facing intense scrutiny over budgets and campaign effectiveness, few are willing to stick their necks out to recommend implementing a marketing automation system.

Conductor's research of more than 380 enterprise search marketers and interviews with numerous SEO professionals finally reveals what separates the 'best-in-class' from the 'laggards.' Best-in-class cite early SEO involvement in content, greater maturity in reporting with the use of advanced techniques such as keyword segmentations, data mash-ups and the use of advanced technology in their reporting workflow, and a stronger commitment to organizational evangelism than their laggard colleagues.

Consumers are leveraging innovative and richly functional mobile devices to become connected and empowered like never before, reshaping the consumer/marketer relationship and raising the stakes for marketers to utilize the mobile channel to engage shoppers and drive revenue.

Marketing and technology partners must collaborate as never before in order to delight and engage customers “in the moment.”
Previously stove-piped functions are starting to work together to take a holistic approach to create great digital experiences at enterprise
scale, but organizations see the need for more work to create relevant, integrated digital customer experiences in real time.
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to discover how developers and marketers are working together to provide customers
exceptional digital experiences reliably, quickly, and seamlessly.
The study found that while the mandate to collaborate has been heard, there is still work to be done to move to the next level and put in
place technology, processes, and culture to create digital customer experience in real time.

Marketing and technology partners must collaborate as never before in order to delight and engage customers “in the moment.” Previously stove-piped functions are starting to work together to take a holistic approach to create great digital experiences at enterprise scale, but organizations see the need for more work to create relevant, integrated digital customer experiences in real time.
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to discover how developers and marketers are working together to provide customers exceptional digital experiences reliably, quickly, and seamlessly.
The study found that while the mandate to collaborate has been heard, there is still work to be done to move to the next level and put in place technology, processes, and culture to create digital customer experience in real time.

Enterprise Marketing Management, or EMM, is a software
technology solution for marketing organizations that provides a comprehensive marketing platform for managing customer and prospect interactions throughout the customer lifecycle. Before introducing the IBM® Enterprise Marketing Management suite, here are some recent observations about today’s marketing environment that set the context in which IBM is seeking to meet the needs of marketers.
The practice of marketing is challenging these days because of the rise of the “empowered customer.” Today’s customers are well-informed, use other people as their primary information source, interact with companies through multiple channels, touch points and media, and want (but rarely get) a superior customer experience—and have outlets for venting frustration when they don’t get what they want.